Sure its a useful feature to have, but are you sure its that useful?
The two bits of software are quite different and I dont use arnold,
but I would have thought.
Raytracing seems like its always going to be more dependant on
memory? Most of the parts of a render, apart from setting up the scene
are going to be relatively independent and would scale (really really)
well? On any thing non trivial space considerations seem to be the
biggest problems.
Nuke also seems to be bound by space, either holding it or getting it
into memory, it feels like that your wouldn't get an efficiency
increase by running more of them in the same space. And when its not
bound by space you do tend to use all the cpu. In any event your going
to be bound by GPU as soon as they release their gpu accelerated code.
There has been for more than 12 month a bug in there license
implementation that would cause that to fail.
But if you add the feature im happy to test it.
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Stephen Willey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Depending on how many cores and how many artists are around we'd
> definitely run more than one Arnold or Nuke on a machine. hbatch
> tends to chew a whole machine but mantra I'd run more than one.
> That's only going to become more common as we move to machines with
> piles of cores in them. Some things scale across the cores but some
> don't and you're better off running two frames simultaneously.
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Ben De Luca <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Sure :) Those are all relatively new products, or new licensing schemes.
>>
>> Is it generally sensible to run multiple instances of any of those
>> packages (possibly excluding rvio)?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Hugh Macdonald
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 15/01/12 17:39, Ben De Luca wrote:
>>>
>>> I think you will find that per host licensing is the exception rather
>>> than the rule.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sure, but it seems common enough to support, particularly in our industry.
>>> There are at least 4 commonly used industry packages that use it (Nuke,
>>> Houdini, Arnold, as previously mentioned, plus RVIO)
>>>
>>>
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